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The father of Europe, unrecognised in his own country?

Posted by Georgi Gotev on 03/12/09

I met Jacques Delors again. I had already had the honour of being in his company when we made a 90-minute TV film about him, Toma Tomov* and me, in 2001. We called the film “Citizen Delors”, partly inspired from a poster of “Citizen Kane” which Delors had kept in his Berlaymont office, in previous [...]

Where were you when the Berlin wall fell?

Posted by Georgi Gotev on 06/11/09

That’s the question to ask these days to people you met in the meantime. Well, if you or them are at least 30 years of age.
There are moments, like 9/11, when everyone remembers what they have been doing, feeling and experiencing. By the way, the wall also fell on 9/11, but written the European way [...]

Putin punishes Eastern Europe

Posted by Georgi Gotev on 20/10/09

The Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin has punished Bulgaria for not being as pro-Russian as he wants, by excluding it from the South Stream gas pipeline and by abandoning the project of an oil pipeline from the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Varna to to Greek port Alexandroupolis.
Indeed, Russia has had a consistent policy of [...]

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